3,000-km range Agni-III missile has already been inducted into the armed force

3,000-km range Agni-III missile has already been inducted into the armed force

India will for the first time test fire its 5,000-km range Agni-V ballistic missile by the end of this year in what is being seen as a major leap in the countryâ€™s missile capability.

â€œAgni-V missile would be ready for test by the end of this year, probably in December,â€ Defence Research and Development Organisation chief V.K. Saraswat said in New Delhi on Friday on the sidelines of a function.

He said that the 3,000-km range Agni-III missile has already been inducted into the armed forces. â€œAgni-III is already inducted. Its development has been completed and is under production,â€ he said.

Mr. Saraswat was replying to the queries on development schedule of Agni-III and Agni-V series of missiles after Defence Minister A.K. Antony, who addressed the function, asked the DRDO to prioritise development of the 5,000-km range ballistic missile.

Congratulating the DRDO for developing Ballistic Missile Defence System, Mr. Antony said, â€œDRDO must demonstrate the capability to develop missiles of the range of 5,000 km at the earliest. This is a challenge for the DRDO and I hope they will successfully meet this challenge at the earliest.â€

â€œThe first trial is expected to start in December this year followed by a series of modifications and further trials over the next few years. This missile would be based on the concept of re-entry vehicle capable of covering whole of Pakistan and China,â€ DRDO officials said.

That's great. But I am surprised how come DRDO went all low profile on the induction of Agni-III. They usually love taking credit for stuff that is decades away and this time they actually did it so quietly. Anyways, I feel that we should move most of our Agni-IIIs in NE states. Ladakh, Arunachal, Uttarakhand, Himachal, Arunachal and Sikkim are a start. We need at least a 100 of them in ready condition.

That's great. But I am surprised how come DRDO went all low profile on the induction of Agni-III. They usually love taking credit for stuff that is decades away and this time they actually did it so quietly. Anyways, I feel that we should move most of our Agni-IIIs in NE states. Ladakh, Arunachal, Uttarakhand, Himachal, Arunachal and Sikkim are a start. We need at least a 100 of them in ready condition.

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Its not DRDO that always takes credit its the state owned factories that a talk too much.

Or the media it self doing their BS reporting , after having one interview they barely understand
Most of it is having media not know what they are talking about , but they report anyway

we are not in the state of war, just 20 would do, yeah all over North East in railway tunnels, even some of them in MP. Remember A3 is only for special package. BTW wont be bad idea to have dummies in equal numbers to fool our enemy.

please remember that all the agni varients can also be used in conventional strike role.also india's warheads are kept separate from missile in order to survive in case of a nuclear first strike.in case of any possible conflict with china both china and india will try to use it's ballistic missile's in conventional role as both have no first use policy.

please remember that all the agni varients can also be used in conventional strike role.also india's warheads are kept separate from missile in order to survive in case of a nuclear first strike.in case of any possible conflict with china both china and india will try to use it's ballistic missile's in conventional role as both have no first use policy.

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sir, A3 is bloody expensive to be used for conventional strike, therefore it only meant to deliver only special package.

yes agni 3 is expensive but in case of hostilities with china we have nothing else in our arsenal to target the major chinese cities and military infrastructure(in conventional sense).we do need a russian raguda type cruise missile with 3000km+ range which the chinese have copied.